Thomas Hodgkin - "Theodoric the Goth"

Grace Christie - "Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving"

Johanna S. Wisthaler - "By Water to the Columbian Exposition"

G. E. Wyatt - "Archie's Mistake"

Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2007
This paper argues that discourses of love in Ghanaian market literature for youth offer a view into complex negotiations of agency and empowerment. Drawing on Deborah Durham's notion of youth as "social `shifters'" and Francis Nyamnjoh's conception of the "interconnectedness" of agency, I take Ghanaian market literature as one specific case of how African literature for youth foregrounds questions of continuity and change as African societies enter into increasingly complex global relations. In this literature for youth, received notions of love, often constructed out of impressions from American pop and hip hop music, carry new notions of agency that compete with existing "domesticated" forms. Authors like Ike Tandoh and Evelyn Tay employ discourses of love to offer youth alternative avenues for empowerment in a context of socio-economic disenfranchizement. In a creative process of "straddling", this writing both reveals and reproduces the contradictions that obtain in youth configurations of agency.

Die Leute von Seldwyla, Vol. 1

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Herr Pineiss aber fuehrte von nun an ein erbaermliches Leben; seine
Gattin hatte sich sogleich in den Besitz aller seiner Geheimnisse
gesetzt und beherrschte ihn vollstaendig. Es war ihm nicht die
geringste Freiheit und Erholung gestattet, er musste hexen vom Morgen
bis zum Abend, was das Zeug halten wollte, und wenn Spiegel
vorueberging und es sah, sagte er freundlich: "Immer fleissig,
fleissig, Herr Pineiss?"

Seit dieser Zeit sagt man zu Seldwyla: Er hat der Katze den Schmer
abgekauft! besonders wenn einer eine boese und widerwaertige Frau
erhandelt hat.

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